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dreamdefenders: On April 22, 16-year-old Kiera Wilmot was...

nowavefeminismmod — Fri, 10 May 2013 17:17:27 -0700

On April 22, 16-year-old Kiera Wilmot was arrested at her Polk County high school for conducting a science experiment. The teen, who has no criminal history and maintained good grades, suddenly found herself trapped in Florida’s insidious school to prison pipeline; which has continually funneled mostly youth of color out of Florida’s schools and into the criminal justice system.

According to a report by Florida’s Department of Juvenile Justice, over 57% of the state’s 96,515 youth incarcerated in 2012 were Black and Brown. In Kiera’s home of Polk County, Sheriff Grady Judd has presided over a system in which youth have continually been cycled through county jails in which severe abuses have been alleged including the use of pepper spray and the holding of juveniles in cages.

During the 2013 Florida Legislative Session, Dream Defenders worked with allies in the Florida Campaign for Juvenile Justice to reform Florida’s broken juvenile justice system. Despite repeated community visits to the state capital, briefings and press conferences by advocates and sponsoring legislators, the 2013 Legislative session closed with no action on critical bills such as SB 1374/HB 1039 which would have reformed Florida’s Zero Tolerance law at play in this case.

While Kiera navigates the legal ramifications of her unjust case Polk County Superintendent John Stewart has made the decision to place Kiera in an “alternative school” as he considers expulsion proceedings. Dream Defenders find these actions by Superintendent Stewart reprehensible. Dream Defenders demands that Stewart drop all expulsion proceedings against Kiera Wilmot and allow her to return to her enrollment at Bartow High School.

Dream Defenders calls upon all local, state and national allies to TAKE ACTION to ensure Kiera does not become another casualty of the school to prison pipeline.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

Sign the petition to get Kiera back in school

Spread these images by tweeting them, reblogging them and posting them on instagram.

Contact Polk County Superintendent John Stewart by calling: (863) 534-0521

Sample Script:

Superintendent Stewart,

My name is _____________ and I am calling to express my concern about the expulsion proceedings against Kiera Wilmot. Florida has been among the national leaders in furthering a school to prison pipeline; with zero tolerance policies being used to lock up, expel and divert youth from their right to an education. Ms. Wilmot’s case is another example of the state and your office criminalizing and derailing the future of a girl of color. Your handling of her case has been irresponsible and reprehensible. Ms. Wilmot’s actions and intent simply do not warrant expulsion or placement in alternative schooling. I am calling on you to immediately drop all expulsion proceedings against Kiera Wilmot and allow her to return to her regular enrollment at Bartow High School.

In order to make an impact in this case we will need the support of thousands.

Please share this message with family and friends. Let’s ensure there is

#JusticeForKiera

Why I stepped out of my One Billion Rising South Africa Coordinator role.

nowavefeminismmod — Fri, 10 May 2013 17:11:48 -0700

Why I stepped out of my One Billion Rising South Africa Coordinator role.:

By Gillian Schutte

For those who have asked why I have stepped out of the role of coordinator for One Billion Rising South Africa. Here is my response to both personal issues and the wider issues.

I have ideological differences with the international office, which are in the body outlined below. While I support the ethos of dance and protest I cannot work within the organisational expectations and criticisms/invalidation of my personal politics.

I am an “outspoken and challenging” social critic – it is a conflict of interest as the Managing Director felt I was alienating ‘her people’. She cited my letter – “Dear white people” as an example.

I will not be muzzled, shut up, insulted and shamed for being an anti-racism social justice activist.

My politics are uncompromisingly pro-poor, social-justice and Left based which is seen as a stumbling block and excluding of the middle class.

I refuse to have to fight for the right to take on a solidarity approach and work with grassroots organisations and feminists in a politicized strategy that was more about highlighting the issues of justice for LGBTIQ individuals who have been murdered because of their sexual orientation – or to use the platform to speak to issues that affect the majority of women in South Africa – in consultation and partnership with feminists in South Africa. That this approach was seen as alienating to certain people baffles me. If those people are alienated by this approach then they should not be part of any anti-patriarchy movement.

I don’t think ‘protest movements’ and corporate funding are great bed partners. The suggestion that I was judgmental, radical and other negative adjectives because of my refusal to go that route, was again, telling.

I will not be told to put young v-girl teenagers in the ‘center’ or in leadership of a struggle for justice to end VAW – these are largely middle classed teenagers who say things like – ‘poor people are to blame for their poverty’. Experienced activists who understand social and feminist issues are automatic leaders in movements that claim to be representative.

While I support and believe in reclaiming public spaces, bodies, orgasm and joy – I will not be instructed to call a struggle in South Africa ‘a joyous revolution’ when feminists here are shouting loud and clear that there is ‘no cause to celebrate’ until justice is seen for the women who have been murdered for their sexual orientation – and for women to whom rape is a reality not a slogan.

I also do not accept anyone overriding my integrity and instructing the publicist to change the wording of my press release back to joyous revolution – when I have explained why this is not acceptable – and then have to fight to have it reverted.

I will not share a podium under the same banner with a ‘feminist’ who openly supports the war on Palestine – I don’t believe that we can be ‘all-inclusive’ if that means we must overlook issues of gross injustice towards women who are violated by brutal imperialistic systems. That is exactly the opposite of all-inclusiveness.

I will not place celebrities, who generally remain silent on issues of VAW, as the spokespeople for women’s struggles merely to attract more followers.

I will not be told that this is a free and democratic movement with no rules and then be subjected to top-down instructions.

I will not be put in a situation where there are no funding mechanisms allowed through which to find donor funding for protest action but then be expected to fund through other orgs who have their own funding difficulties.

Mostly I will not be asked questions such as – “There are 54 million people in South Africa – why were they not all dancing?”

Are you fucking kidding me?!?

I came on board in solidarity with a global movement to network with organisations already doing the work in the context of a real South Africa … not to choreograph a nationwide dance using people who have deep-seated poverty issues and are probably not in the space to boogey to feel-good music that is not going to feed their families or get them jobs or housing or access to clean water and decent sanitation.

We chose to honor and support women who live the reality of the violence of economic exclusion by assisting with a community organised march and vigil at Marikana and offering support to the women of that area with a focus on the wives of the massacred miners. We did not impose the OBR music and dance onto this occasion because that felt disrespectful and inappropriate. However it was done as an OBR outreach event, not an OBR choreography event.

I personally always thought of the dance element as an option – not a given. Justice issues were given preference. Creating a safe space for the spontaneous organic celebration of our diversity and sameness and joy and body was part of this.

I find it hard to understand a movement that partners with militant unions in some countries on the one hand and then does not speak out against the public dismissal of the concerns of some grassroots organizational structures and networks, on the other, as played out in Canada.

Activists and ordinary people in all communities have agency and voices – they do not need a global movement to do anything on their behalf. They also do not need global movements to go in and take over or overshadow their vital and established protest actions. Global movements should offer these grassroots protests and movements solidarity not usurpation.

I am in solidarity with the Indigenous Women’s movements in Canada (For our Sisters, Families of Sisters and Spirit) whose request for OBR Toronto to change their day of protests (or join theirs in sisterhood) so as not to eclipse/minimize their annual action calling for justice around the murdered and missing indigenous women of Canada on this same day - was dismissed and then their concerns described as ‘undue vitriol’ by the Canadian One Billion Rising Organizer in her response letter.

Certainly, my concerns have been dismissed or mythologized into insignificance too and none of the plentiful letters I sent outlining my apprehensions, were dealt with adequately, if at all. It was in New York recently, and in the aftermath of the meeting there, that the problematics of OBR came into sharp focus for me.

If One Billion Rising really has global women’s concerns and voices at heart then they should host an international symposium inclusive of all women and headed by women who are central to grassroots struggles, including indigenous women, to guide them on a way forward in terms of global strategy. I suggested this more than once.

I do not think that Eve Ensler is racist or has bad intentions. I think that Eve Ensler is a heartfelt and loving person but is victim to her own invisible white privilege and v-day’s organisational whiteness structures and was thus unable to envisage this revolt against (and from within) her well-intentioned movement.

If she cares and loves the world’s women, as she does, and if this movement is truly revolutionary ,then we call on her to open up this space to many more diverse women to decide on the way forward.

A revolution cannot be manufactured – it cannot be choreographed or staged or managed or controlled. It cannot be the brainchild of one person with a committee of worker bees to do her bidding. Though there are feminists involved in the organizing committee from around the world – it is not a big enough input to run a democratic global campaign. There does need to be much more public participation in the decision-making processes in all countries and the international office should consider using its resources to facilitate this process.

A revolution is organic – it truly belongs to the people – it is based on ideology of freedom and equity for the oppressed – not the oppressor deciding on or for the oppressed.

While I do not deny that One Billion Rising was a great success in many respects and it highlighted the issue of VAW on an international scale – it has also highlighted problematics in feminist and womens’s rights movements and these need to be dealt with in an open and non-defensive, non-oppressive manner. They need to be embraced and listened to and learned from. This is a valuable opportunity for solidarity. In places where it was owned by the grassroots women’s movements it worked well – the problematics showed up in Settler countries – postcolonial racially divided countries, where the issues are far more complex and open to a neocolonial interpretation of a movement that claims to be egalitarian.

Lauren Chief Elk’s open letter is a vital disruption and challenge to this issue and ought to be celebrated as such.

I hope that more women will feel comfortable about voicing their own concerns and feelings and join this global conversation

Who's Afraid?: Help Support Egyptt! Please Signal Boost

nowavefeminismmod — Wed, 08 May 2013 19:52:35 -0700

Who's Afraid?: Help Support Egyptt! Please Signal Boost:

tranqualizer:

thespiritwas:

(click here to donate)

Dear Friends & Community,

We are writing to let you know of a community member who needs support after going through a major health crisis. Many of you know Egyptt, a long time activist and advocate for low income, trans communities of color.

Egyptt was formerly co-coordinator of Trans Justice at the Audre Lorde Project. Prior to her work at ALP she was a crucial member of the Queers for Economic Justice Welfare Warriors group where she lead the way fighting transphobia within New York City’s welfare agency: the Human Resources Administration. Because of Egyptt’s work NYC’s Human Resources Administration has adopted its first ever transgender non discrimination policy, which Egyptt helped implement through many trainings of New York City employees.

Additionally Egyptt has been a long time advocate at Housing Works advocating to have New York State pass the Gender Employment Non Discrimination Act (GENDA). She is also a brilliant performer, frequently showcasing her talent at the Housing Works fashion shows and many Trans Day of Remembrance events. Egyptt is now unemployed and has lost her apartment in Harlem. She’s currently living with her partner in a family homeless shelter in NYC.

We are turning to you, our community, to support Egyptt as she navigates this challenging moment. We want to raise 10,000 for Egyptt to get back some of what she has lost in the last few months. She needs resources to get back into housing, to replace lost possessions, and to cover outstanding healthcare costs.

With deep appreciation,
Reina Gossett, Pooja Gehi, & Dean Spade

(click here to donate)

The Largest LGBT Donors Are Drone Manufacturers

nowavefeminismmod — Sat, 04 May 2013 16:40:26 -0700

The Largest LGBT Donors Are Drone Manufacturers:

navigatethestream:

by Hannah Kapp-Klote

In the 1960s and 1970s, queer liberation (what we now call “LGBT equality”) was seen by its advocates as an all-inclusive movement intrinsically bound to other social justice movements: there could be no justice for queer people without justice for people of color, women, workers, those in other nations, etc. Accordingly, queer activistsworked hard to build coalitions with all those determined to fight for justice.

Nowadays, the LGBT movement does more branding than coalition building.

Steven W. Thrasher, who has been nationally recognized for his LGBT journalism, called out national LGBT nonprofits and advocates, colloquially referred to by some as the glitter industrial complex, in aGawker article, contending that the LGBT activists and nonprofits “have been bought, paid-for and sold to the highest bidder.”

It’s true: corporate America runs the LGBT movement, or at least the part of the LGBT movement that gets press time and donors. Their sponsorship keeps the LGBT movement from addressing the issues that matter most for the LGBT community and beyond.

Thrasher highlights that many of the biggest donors to the Human Rights Campaign, the multi-million dollar nonprofit that receives the bulk of donations for LGBT issues, aredrone manufacturers. These donors profit off of the United States’ use of drones to killcivilians,including children, with little oversight or accountability. Drone manufacturers are far from the only ethically dark gray to black donors to LGBT advocacy organizations: a brief perusal of any major LGBT organization’s list of donors reveals thatcorporate black hatslike Bank of America,BP,Coke, andNikeall provide major cash to LGBT nonprofits.

And it must be acknowledged that these corporate dollars do some good: programs that encourage the leadership development and empowerment of LGBT young people, the election of LGBT public officials, and advocacy for greater research into LGBT issues would be practically impossible in the modern economy without significant corporate donations. Yet there is something antithetical about a movement for equality and justice funded by the forces in the world most responsible for widespread economic and social inequality.

When the LGBT community is not united with social movements that address the issues facing the most marginalized LGBT people, with racial justice proponents (proportionally more people of coloridentify as queer), with those fighting against systemic poverty, with pacifists, are we really making any progress? Or has the LGBT movement been kidnapped by power elites advocating for their own interests? The dilemma is reminiscent of an image circling some corners of the web: a white gay male couple superimposed over the Human Rights Campaign red equality symbol that dominated Facebook during the gay marriage Supreme Court hearings.

“We’re just like you: racist, homophobic, and sexist,” reads the caption. All that’s missing is “market driven” and “war profiteers.”

Of course, claiming that the agendas of nonprofit executives and corporate leaders are the agenda for the entire LGBT movement is just as misleading claiming that gay marriage is the deciding issue of the LGBT movement. Queer activists around the country, from radical groups likeSoutherners on New Ground (SONG),andQueers for Economic Justice, are connecting the dots between queer liberation, pacifism, and economic and racial justice. Countless more groups and activists, with or without 501c3 status, are fighting to make sure that queer liberation — not LGBT equality — is tied up with justice for all oppressed groups around the world.

Progress for queer people means nothing if it comes at the expense of others also marginalized and fighting for justice. Gay advocacy paid for by companies that poison the land, treat their workers unfairly, and assist in the killing of children from other nations is worthless in the long run. If we truly want a world where LGBT people are equal, we have to recognize that such equality is contingent upon justice for all people.

Not when health care is provided to every same-sex couple, but where health care is accessible to all; not when violent homophobia is eliminated, but when violence based on hatred of any group is eliminated. It might sound Utopian, and it might not be achieved through high profile fund raising dinners. But the alternative, inequality and corporate exploitation draped in a pride flag, is neither progressive nor equal.

cue to a shot of me howling with diabolical laughter.

not because drones are funny

but because for all the equality red signs i had to stomach, for all the insufferable cis straight people who refuse to apply a critical lens to their “allyship”, for all the horribly constructed arguments supporting the HRC i’ve listened to not only this year, but in past years

congratulations! your desire and push for equality is intersectional in the worst way possible.

now not only does the HRC screw over people (anybody who is not upper middle class, white, gay cis male), but the companies who back the HRC screw over people WITH DRONES. on top of their other shitty corporate policies because WHO HAS EVER MET A FRIENDLY ETHICAL CAPITALIST?! NOT I!

i chuckle in your face

i chuckle long, i chuckle hard, and i chuckle loudly

White Girl Privilege And The Problem With Blaming All Men — thoughtcatalog.com — Readability

nowavefeminismmod — Fri, 03 May 2013 21:36:53 -0700

White Girl Privilege And The Problem With Blaming All Men — thoughtcatalog.com — Readability:

An Open Letter to Eve Ensler

nowavefeminismmod — Fri, 03 May 2013 21:18:51 -0700

chiefelk:

Dear Eve Ensler,

I want to start off by saying thank you. I appreciate the time you took to reach out to me, because I know you’re incredibly busy. I know there are much more important people in this world than myself, so I appreciate you engaging in dialogue with me and my colleague Kelleigh Driscoll.

This all started because on Twitter, I addressed some issues that I had with V-Day, your organization, and the way it treated Indigenous women in Canada. I said that you are racist and dismissive of Indigenous people. You wrote to me that you were upset that I would suggest this, and not even 24 hours later you were on the Joy Behar Show referring to your chemotherapy treatment as a “Shamanistic exercise”.

Your organization took a photo of Ashley Callingbull, and used it to promote V-Day Canada and One Billion Rising, without her consent. You then wrote the word “vanishing” on the photo, and implied that Indigenous women are disappearing, and inherently suggested that we are in some type of dire need of your saving. You then said that Indigenous women were V-Day Canada’s “spotlight”. V-Day completely ignored the fact that February 14th is an iconic day for Indigenous women in Canada, and marches, vigils, and rallies had already been happening for decades to honor the missing and murdered Indigenous women. You repeatedly in our conversation insisted that you had absolutely no idea that these events were already taking place. So then, what were you spotlighting? When Kelleigh brought up that it was problematic for you to be completely unaware that this date is important to the women you’re spotlighting, your managing director Cecile Lipworth became extremely defensive and responded with “Well, every date on the Calendar has importance.” This is not an acceptable response.

When women in Canada brought up these exact issues, V-Day responded to them by deleting the comment threads that were on Facebook. For a person and organization who works to end violence against women, this is certainly the opposite of that. Although I’m specifically addressing V-Day, this is not an isolated incident. This is something that Indigenous women constantly face. This erasure of identity and white, colonial, feminism is in fact, a form of violence against us. The exploitation and cultural appropriation creates and excuses the violence done to us.

When I told you that your white, colonial, feminism is hurting us, you started crying. Eve, you are not the victim here. This is also part of the pattern which is a problem: Indigenous women are constantly trying to explain all of these issues, and are constantly met with “Why are you attacking me?!” This is not being a good ally.

You asked me what would it mean to be a good ally. It would have meant stepping back, giving up the V-Day platform, and attending the marches and vigils. It would have meant putting aside the One Billion Rising privilege and participating in what the Indigenous women felt was important.

At the end of our conversation you offered me the opportunity to join V-Day. Offered me money. Offered me to become a spokesperson for Native American women. These are things I am not interested in. I do not want to be part of the white savior industrial complex, and I never want to duplicate saviorism and colonialism within my own organization, Save Wiyabi Project, and I’m surely not interested in selling my soul and integrity for a bit of cash and perceived prestige.

I’m not here to speak for Ashley and how she felt about her photo being used, and I’m not here to speak for the Indigenous women in Canada. Indigenous women in the United States and Canada have agency, self determination, and are quite capable of telling their own stories, and have been doing so for thousands of years. We are aware of the violence we face, and are also aware this just isn’t about individual acts of violence. We expect not only our bodies, but our agency, work, and contributions to be respected. None of this is new, and we do not need a white person to legitimize our history and existence.

I entered this conversation with uneasy feelings about V-Day and your work, and left feeling completely dismissed – much like the Indigenous women in Canada. You might have been listening to what I was saying, but you definitely didn’t hear me. You dumped all of my concerns onto someone else and did not take personal responsibility for anything. Eve, this is YOUR organization. My hope is that you do some self examination about what’s happening here. You have to see this before you continue doing this work because this is epistemic and imperial violence. Your actions are assisting violence, not ending it.

Sincerely,

Lauren Chief Elk

How Public Policy Built The Racial Wealth Divide - COLORLINES

nowavefeminismmod — Fri, 03 May 2013 20:08:37 -0700

How Public Policy Built The Racial Wealth Divide - COLORLINES:

Ta-Nehisi Coates writes on a foul 1950’s housing market practice that ropped black wealth and helped set the conditions for the current racial wealth gap.

fabianromero: [image of a brown woman, with shoulder length...

nowavefeminismmod — Wed, 01 May 2013 23:14:46 -0700

fabianromero:

[image of a brown woman, with shoulder length hair holding a sign that reads “Fuck Weed, Legalize my Mom.” behind her are other people some holding signs or flags, no other signs are legible.]

all the feelings. so many feelings.

tranqualizer: UPDATE: The struggle continues! Eva was preparing...

nowavefeminismmod — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:14:25 -0700

tranqualizer:

UPDATE: The struggle continues! Eva was preparing to re-enroll and in that process found out that she owes the school $2,600 after having lost her scholarship. Please donate if you haven’t gotten a chance to do so. there is 50 hours left!

tranqualizer:

[photo: image of Eva Panjwani, a working-class Muslimah Queer South Asian immigrant resting against a dresser and smiling at the camera. text reads, “please help me pursue my dream of finishing college.]

Help Eva Learn and check out her fundraiser here! the goal is $1,700.

Short Story Long

My name is Eva Panjwani and today, I am asking you to make an investment in my future. Let me tell you a little about myself, paint a picture so to speak. I am 25 years old, and I live in Carrboro, North Carolina. I was born in Karachi, Pakistan; I split my childhoold between tiny Beach Park, Illinois and the industrious city of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

I am not so different from you. When I discover a song I like, I tend to listen to it on repeat for a while, until I find the next one. I was super into the Harry Potter series when I was younger, and dressed up for all the movie premieres. After ordering things from the menu at a restaurant, I inevitably get food envy when my friends’ choices arrive.

Growing up, I was always considered a smart kid. I was in the Academically Gifted program from 4th grade onwards, even though I came into US public schools with English as a Second Language. In high school, I exhausted all of my school’s options in advanced mathematics classes, and ended up applying and being accepted into the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.

Struggles with bullying and low self-esteem were a prominent part of my childhood and adolescence, and getting away from all the years of harassment was the biggest reason I applied to NCSSM. In high school, I was in a period of self-discovery like everyone else, and after hints of me being somehow “different” since I was 4 years old, I finally came out. To myself. Raised Muslim, I knew this was a Big Deal.

I got a good SAT score and ended up being admitted to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with the prestigious Johnston Scholarship - a merit and need-based full ride. That was all back in 2006. Something else big happened to me in 2006: my father unexpectedly passed away.

Ever since then I have struggled with reoccuring issues related to:

supporting myself financially

mental health imbalances

figuring out who and where my community was.

I lasted a little over two years at UNC, relying on part-time jobs and the small amount of leftover scholarship money to feed myself and buy books, before all my problems caught up to me. I needed desperately to take time off from school to set straight my emotional world, and in doing so I lost my scholarship. I’m a working-class Muslimah Queer South Asian immigrant that has struggled immensely with my emotional and mental well-being. It’s not too easy finding out who to turn to, where to go. And my depression turned into anxiety too, panic attacks happening at an increasing rate, and thoughts of suicide haunted me. I was at rock bottom.

Since then, I have been able to turn my life around and seek support - via mental health professionals and through building a community for myself. I took responsibility for my well being and did what I needed to do to re-center my emotional world. I took night classes in culinary arts at Durham Technical Community College, and have been working in foodservice. I keep a semi-regular blog that chronicles what is has meant for me to learn self-care and self-love, in hopes of spreading to others. I have worked enough to have a small savings account to help me through financial ups and downs. I have a cat! I am an activist, and have tried to stay a part of the conversation on education reform, and the fight for Worker and Student Power here in NC. I help run a national radical youth blog.

In many, many ways I am emotionally and mentally different from the at-risk, distracted, and lonely young woman I was when I lost my scholarship. I know I am more pragmatic, I am more self-aware, I am quieter and I am resourceful. I want a second chance at finishing my degree, and I finally believe I am ready and able to pursue it

What I Need & What You Get

I am applying for nontraditional readmission to the University. In order for me to apply for nontraditional readmission, I have to show evidence of recent successful coursework via Carolina Courses Online - i.e. online classes through the Friday Center. The idea is to have a better understanding of my current academic promise. In order to do that, I need:

$1,182 towards tuition for 6 credit hours (2 classes).

$84.24 towards the accompanying fees for 6 credit hours (2 classes).

$250 towards textbooks - this is an estimate.

And the rest is towards the IndieGoGo fee(s).

Help Eva Learn and check out her fundraiser here! the goal is $1,700.

A Quick Post on Tracking/Banning IPs on Tumblr

nowavefeminismmod — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:52:00 -0700

These are just a couple of things that I know of for stuff like this. If you have any other useful tools, please send them in and I’ll add them to this post. This post will just cover Statcounter and an IP redirector.

So, first things first:

Statcounter

Statcounter is a website that lets you track visitors on your website for free. All you have to do is register your account and it will give you a code to put on your blog.

Here’s what the homepage looks like:

If I wanted to add a new blog to my projects, I would click the green plus sign at the bottom right that says “Add Another Project”.

This is the page you’ll get when adding a new project.

Just add the url of your blog to the Project URL form and give the project a name. Everything else is optional. If you want people to know you have a tracker on your site, there are multiple options for a counter or button to be displayed on your blog (you may have already seen the numbers one on other blogs).

EDIT: Here’s the install guide for putting statcounter on your Tumblr - http://statcounter.com/p8112077/reinstall/?guide=tumblr

If you don’t want yourself showing up on your stats, go to your project. The individual project page looks like this:

Config is in the top left. Click on it.

Go to “Create blocking Cookie.” All you have to do is click a button and you’re gone from your own stats. (Note: Remember to re-do this every time you clear cookies from your browser.)

Now you’re ready to go and keep track of who’s on your blog. On your project page you can click “Recent Visitor Activity” to see the IPs of your visitors and where they come from (visitors who typed in the URL or opened it in a new tab won’t have a Referring URL.

There’s also a Download Activity page if you want to see who’s downloaded any pictures or media from your blog (especially useful if you want to see if anyone’s downloading any personal pictures you may have posted).

So now that you can find out the IPs of your visitors, let’s talk about a way to get unwanted visitors off your page. The only thing I know of right now is a script that redirects IPs to whatever URL you want after filling out a form. You can find it here: http://www.freehostedscripts.net/bansu.php

It looks like this:

I don’t know how to find the URL of a specific person on Tumblr unless they go to your blog specifically from their “/blog/_____” page. So if I wanted to ban someone from nowavefeminism I would find their URL on Statcounter:

(I’ve blocked out their URL and IP here, I’m not actually going to ban this person of course.)

And put that into the script form along with the URL I want them to redirect to. (In this case, a QI klaxon generator that flashes “YEAH NO” http://www.glastonbridge.co.uk/flash/q.php?i=YEAH+NO. Please be aware that the link has a sudden loud noise and flashing text.)

Click “Get the html code” and put it on your blog (the same way you install the statcounter code).

I tested this on a sideblog, and it seems to work. The only bad thing about this method is you’ll need a definite way of finding someone’s IP address. (Anyone have tips for this?)

So that’s it. Two ways you can marginally improve your safety on Tumblr. I would appreciate any corrections/additions anyone has. Since this is under a read more it will be easier for me to edit things in later.

-Félix

iflybikes: When men talk of women and girls in terms of legal/not legal, what they’re really saying...

nowavefeminismmod — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:01:40 -0700

iflybikes:

When men talk of women and girls in terms of legal/not legal, what they’re really saying is “I already sexually objectify this child and would attempt to fuck her if there were no laws in the way.”

You can’t deny that is fucking scary.

A message:

nowavefeminismmod — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:14:06 -0700

“I think a post on how to install a statcounter/IP tracking/IP blocking would be EXTREMELY useful (in the resources tag). Just this week, myself and several other bloggers had to install one. Or a general post on how to “augment” our safety, since our safety often comes under fire.”

Does anyone have a tutorial/resource for IP blocking? I use statcounter myself, but don’t know much about blocking people from your page. I think there was a script that redirected IPs when you entered them?

Any help would be appreciated!

We now have an F.A.Q. and a tags page! (I only got it done so quickly because there was so...

nowavefeminismmod — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:02:23 -0700

We now have an F.A.Q. and a tags page!

(I only got it done so quickly because there was so little.)

-Félix

a reply: A resources tag would work well. IDR if there is one currently. I was thinking of a...

nowavefeminismmod — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:35:00 -0700

a reply:

A resources tag would work well. IDR if there is one currently.

I was thinking of a resources tag since we’ve posted a few lists and such. If anyone else thinks of something, send a message. I’ll start working on the resources tag now (lucky we only have a couple hundred posts).

-Félix

I’ve gone through and added tags to all the messages we’ve gotten on this blog so far....

nowavefeminismmod — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:23:00 -0700

I’ve gone through and added tags to all the messages we’ve gotten on this blog so far. You can find them under /tagged/ask.

My question is, would you all like a tagging system to be implemented somehow? Would that be helpful in any way? I only tagged asks because it seems that we’ve gotten a couple of questions that have already been answered, but people might not wanna go through the archives. Simple tags like “sexism,” books,” etc?

Let me know!

Edit: And I’m going to add an F.A.Q. page. Only a couple questions for now, but maybe it will be helpful.

-Félix

Here's a relevant post Neeah made awhile back.

nowavefeminismmod — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:15:00 -0700

Here's a relevant post Neeah made awhile back.:

Hey, so I'm a cis, queer, white, able-bodied woman and I'm a feminist and I love this blog, it's important and it's brilliant. The thing is though, the last few posts have made me feel like I shouldn't be here, like I should just keep my mouth shut and stop campaigning. I know, I know, poor little white girl, but it is upsetting when I really want this to be a world where no wave actually is a big deal. I would be interested in hearing your views on this?

nowavefeminismmod — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:29:55 -0700

Hello! Sorry about the late response (That goes for everyone that’s messaged us, some of you sent questions similar to this one). There’s basically just been one mod posting to this blog while I (Félix, that is) was away due to my computer being busted, and she’s left tumblr, and Neeah’s been busy. So, I’ll just give my thoughts on this, and maybe Neeah will want to jump in later?

The thing is, Neeah has said that she doesn’t want it to seem like white cis able-bodied women are excluded from no wave feminism, but that she doesn’t want the focus to be on just them. I’ve seen quite a few white women with “no wave feminist” in their descriptions here on tumblr, and I know Neeah is happy that her idea has actually become A Thing. I know there are things that have been posted to this blog that at first can seem harsh to white women and some of them are — rightfully so. To me, no wave feminism is a way of letting those trans/queer/disabled women of color say those harsh truths, because mainstream feminism never let them. I’m not white, but there have been times where I’ve read something and thought “Well that’s a little much…” but I pull myself back and look at it from whoever wrote it’s point of view, and I often realize I only think it’s harsh because I’ve been shielded from thinking about it all these years. So what I would say is that go ahead and keep promoting no wave feminism, but when you should, step back and let the trans/queer/disabled/women of color speak, because sometimes you do need to keep your mouth shut and let people talk for themselves. That’s something I’m still learning to do here.

If you’d like, you can message me off anonymous at nowavefeminismmod.tumblr.com. It’s just a blog I made so I can keep modding here while I delete my old main blog. It’s just got a description and an ask box, so everything will be private.

-Félix

p.s. I still think Neeah’s original post she made before this blog came into fruition is a good place to go when you’re unsure about whether you should be…centering yourself?…in discussions on no wave feminism.

pretendpagan: Trans* activists in Mexico City, protesting...

sadandroid-deactivated20130429 — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:08:50 -0700

pretendpagan:

Trans* activists in Mexico City, protesting violence against the LGBTQ community.

Photo

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bonesofbirch: you are allowed to terminate toxic relationships you are allowed to walk away from...

plastickitten-deactivated201304 — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:27:31 -0700

bonesofbirch:

you are allowed to terminate toxic relationships

you are allowed to walk away from people who hurt you

you are allowed to be angry and selfish and unforgiving

you don’t owe anyone an explanation for taking care of yourself